Burning Bayou

Burning Bayou is a narrative crime mystery series about the epic hunt for the killer of two teen boys in a fishing community ripped apart by a race war between newly-arrived Vietnamese refugees and local fishing laborers. Set outside New Orleans in the '80s, the podcast follows Cheryl Carter, a rookie FBI agent and Vietnamese adoptee to a white American family, and her partner Mac Watson, a Black special agent and a Vietnam War veteran, as they investigate this volatile case that changes the lives of everyone in the Gulf town… including their own.